Justice Scalia's speech at a high school graduation was surprisingly funny

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave a riveting high school
graduation to Stone Ridge High School graduating seniors. In his
commencement speech there last week, he gave lighthearted and
humorous advice in which he railed against the platitudes
normally given during graduation speeches.

"Indeed never compromise your
principles unless of course your principles are Adolf Hitler's,"
Scalia said. "In which case you would be well advised to
compromise them as much as you can."

And he explained that being zealous is not nearly as admirable as
being right. "If I had to choose, I would always take the less
dynamic, indeed even the lazy person who knows what's right
rather than the zealot in the cause of error," Scalia said. "He
may move slower, but he's headed in the right direction."

And Scalia even ended the speech with some tongue in cheek
platitudes of his own, telling graduates that, "you are captains of your own ship ...
masters of your own destiny ... the future is in your
hands."